Series (with the v2 changes) is: Reviewed-by: Chris Forbes <chr...@ijw.co.nz>
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Ian Romanick <i...@freedesktop.org> wrote: > This patch series implements a new GL extension, > EXT_shader_samples_identical. This extension allows shaders to > determine when all of the samples in a particular texel are the same. > This takes advantage of the way compressed multisample surfaces are > stored on modern Intel and AMD hardware. This enables optimizations in > application multisample resolve filters, etc. > > I really wanted to get this in the next Mesa release. For some reason, > I thought the branch point was after Thanksgiving (which is next > Thursday). Ken reminded me yesterday that the branch point is actually > this Friday. :( As a result, I'm sending it out today to get review as > soon as possible. > > I also wanted to get as much time as possible for other drivers to get > implementations. I worked with Graham Sellers on this extension, and he > assures me that the implementation on modern Radeons is trivial. My > expectation is that it should be about the same as the Intel > implementation. > > There will be some extra TGSI bits needed, but that should also be > trivial. For the NIR and i965 backend bits, I mostly copied and blended > the implementations of txf_ms and query_samples. > > There are currently only trivial piglit tests, but I am working on more. > I basically hacked up tests/spec/arb_texture_multisample/texelfetch.c to > use the extension to render different colors based on whether > textureSamplesIdenticalEXT returned true or false. The resulting image > and the generated assembly look good. My plan is to get a set of real > tests out by midday tomorrow. > > As soon as we're confident that the spec is good, I'll submit it to > Khronos for publication in the registry. I'm still waiting on feedback > from another closed-source driver writer. > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev >
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